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People using the popular Trillian software may lose access to part of AOL Time Warner's instant messaging system.

Firing another salvo in the battle over instant messaging, America Online is blocking people using the Trillian interface from linking to its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) system.

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Graphics chipmaker Nvidia and its licensees, perhaps the victims of their own success, are trying to stem the flow of leaks about the upcoming GeForce4 graphics processing unit (GPU), but without much success so far.

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Thanks Paul for this one:

It would appear that the Promise TX4 IDE RAID controller is NOT compatible with Pentium IV systems.

I purchased one last week and after spending 4hrs attempting to get it up & running I fired off an e-mail to Promise support. They asked me which motherboard I have as they are having a few issues with some but they have a fix in the works. I replied telling them I had an Asus P4T-E. The latest response from Promise technical support is:

Yes you can expect problems on that motherboard. I have no ETA on this fix unfortunately. A workaround would be to use a PentiumIII platform motherboard.

This is a little bit disappointing as the Promise TX4 is Promise's flagship RAID 0, 1, 0+1 card offering 4 independent IDE channels for excellent workstation/small server performance, however if your workstation/small server is running the latest & greatest from Intel then you wont be able to use this card.

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TweakTown has posted an article entitled Telstra Broadband - The Facts Revealed.

According to recent surveys, more Australians use Telstra BigPond than any other Internet provider. Providing a large range of dial-up, cable, ADSL and satellite plans to choose from – it’s no wonder that they enjoy this large market share. But unfortunately for their consumers, things have taken a turn for the worse.
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On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that the media giant was near to cutting a deal with Red Hat in a competitive strike against Microsoft.

Sources familiar with the situation emphatically insisted the two companies are not near an acquisition deal, nor have they discussed one.

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PC Stats has posted a Network Cards & Overclocking article

Today we're going to be looking at how Network Cards (NIC's) handle overclocking, and if they might be the thing that's holding you back from getting higher speeds. As you already know, every peripheral in the PCI slots of your computer is linked to the FSB, and when you're going past 133 MHz (with most boards) you're going to be running the PCI bus out of sync. This means the PCI cards will no longer running at their specified speeds - they willl be running faster then the are supposed to.
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